Twenty vs Salesforce
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Paris YC S23 open-source CRM with 20K+ GitHub stars as modern Salesforce alternative; $5.5M Runa Capital/HubSpot-Front-Pipedrive execs/Automattic seed Nov 2024 competing with Salesforce and HubSpot for AGPLv3 self-hosted enterprise CRM.
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Twenty is a Paris, France-based open-source CRM company — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $5.5 million in total funding including a $5 million seed round in November 2024 led by Runa Capital with 50+ investors including executives from HubSpot, Front, and Pipedrive, plus YC and Automattic (creators of WordPress) — providing enterprises and development teams with a modern, permissively licensed (AGPLv3) open-source CRM platform that serves as an alternative to Salesforce, HubSpot, and proprietary CRM vendors, having achieved 20,000+ GitHub stars and 300+ open-source contributors within its first year. Founded in 2024 by Félix Malfait, Charles Bochet, and Thomas Colas des Francs, Twenty offers the customer data management, pipeline tracking, and workflow automation capabilities of commercial CRMs with the data ownership, extensibility, and cost model of open-source infrastructure.
NYSE-listed (CRM) #1 enterprise CRM at $34.9B revenue with Sales, Service, Marketing Cloud and Agentforce AI; competing with Microsoft Dynamics and HubSpot for enterprise customer operations platform.
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Salesforce is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company — the world's #1 CRM platform — providing Sales Cloud (pipeline and opportunity management), Service Cloud (customer support), Marketing Cloud (email and journey marketing), Commerce Cloud (B2C and B2B e-commerce), MuleSoft (integration platform), Tableau (analytics), and Slack (team collaboration) as a unified enterprise platform. Listed on NYSE (NYSE: CRM), Salesforce was founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff and Parker Harris and generated $34.9 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2025, serving 150,000+ companies globally from SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises including Amazon, Bank of America, and T-Mobile.
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